Ag Summit Series 2025

John Baranick

DTN Ag Meteorologist

John Baranick has been a meteorologist with DTN since 2011. John uses his forecasts to comment on the various impacts weather has on different industries while helping customers make important business decisions. His commentary has been received by clients in the aviation, transportation, energy, and agriculture industries worldwide. John graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology and a minor in agronomy.

Jennifer Carrico

DTN Livestock Editor

Jennifer Carrico is an Iowa State University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in animal science and a minor in journalism. She joined the DTN staff in 2023 as the Senior Livestock Editor.

Throughout her journalism career she has covered agriculture in the Midwest for the Iowa Farmer Today, High Plains Journal and Wallaces Farmer, as well as several other publications during her time as a freelance journalist. She has received writing and photography awards from the Livestock Publications Council (LPC) and Agricultural Communications Network (ACN). In 2017 she was honored with the Master Writer Award from ACN. She served as the president of LPC in 2020.

Jennifer will use her many years of experience in the livestock industry to cover beef issues in the Cattlelink section of the magazine and the weekly Cattlelink e-newsletter. She lives on her family’s beef cattle and crop farm in central Iowa, where her children are the sixth generation to raise cattle there.

Dr. Derrell Peel

Oklahoma State University Livestock Marketing Specialist

Derrell Peel is the Charles Breedlove Professor of Agribusiness in the Department of Agricultural Economics. He has served as the Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist since he came to Oklahoma State University in 1989. His main program areas at Oklahoma State University include livestock market outlook and marketing/risk management education for livestock producers. Derrell also works in the area of international livestock and meat trade with particular focus on Mexico and Canada and the North American livestock and meat industry.

ShayLe Stewart

DTN Livestock Analyst

ShayLe Stewart is the newest member of the DTN analysis team (September 2019), and comes with deep roots in the beef industry.

Based in the high mountain cattle country near Cody, Wyoming, Stewart leads coverage in all areas of livestock and meat production, and brings a true boots-on-the-ground perspective to a livestock marketing world that gets increasingly difficult to navigate.

ShayLe grew up on a cow-calf and haying operation in south-central Montana, where her passion for the beef industry led her to Colorado State University, ultimately to an internship with the United States Cattlemen’s Association. Her experiences following markets for USCA were the springboard for her self-produced Cattle Market News website and Facebook outlets. Those weekly reports were a reliable source of compressed, easy-to-understand, digestible market information.
While her background is in the ranching West, ShayLe comes with a solid list of market contacts from around the country. Talking each week to sale barn owners, feed lot managers, and other industry experts, she is able to ask the questions that cattlemen need answered in order to find clarity in a complex and dynamic market.

ShayLe and her husband, Jimmy, run a registered herd of Sim-Angus females, and host an annual bull sale in Powell, Wyoming.